[Asterisk-Users] 160 analogue phones..

[Dovid Bender]

I would look at the cost of the channle banks vs.
selling the analog phones and getting very basic voip
hardphones.
--- Conrad Wood <asterisk-users at conradwood.net> wrote:

> Does anyone have any recommendations on how to
> connect 160 analogue
> phones to an asterisk PBX?
> 
> Background information:
> A client wishes to replace their current PBX with a
> new VoIP system.
> Currently they have 2 PRIs.
> I intent to set up 2 asterisk PBXs with Debian
> GNU/Linux on raided
> drives. These drives will be mounted only read-only
> to recover
> gracefully from power-cycles. I am considering 2
> ISDNGuards in front of
> the machines.
> More to the point: The client has 160 existing
> analogue telephones which
> they don't really want to change right now, because
> a) they are very
> cheap b) the users don't need to re-train.
> 
> I have thought of Rhino Channelbanks, but then
> realised I need to use 7
> of them and connect each with a T1. I don't really
> want to run 7 T1 +
> the 2 PRIs into one asterisk box for performance
> reasons.
> 
> Ideally, several 48-Port SIP->FXS channelbank woulds
> be ideal I
> guess ;-). Does such thing exist? Or how do others
> do this? 
> 
> Conrad
> 
> 
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